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JUNE 2017 MCLE: Interrupting Bias in the Legal Profession

  • Upper Crust Trattoria 11560 Los Osos Valley Road San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401 United States (map)

Our Speaker: Chris Chambers Goodman, Esq.,
 

Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law and President of California Women Lawyers


Professor Goodman joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2001 after being an associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione, and then teaching at UCLA School of Law.  Currently she teaches Evidence, Trial Practice, and a Seminar on Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law. Professor Goodman also has taught Criminal Law, Trial Preparation and Settlement, Constitutional Law, and Community Outreach: Youth Mentoring. She serves as an advisor to the Black Law Students' Association and the Women's Legal Association, and has been a mock trial team coach.

Professor Goodman writes on equal protection topics, including affirmative action, preferences, diversity and racial privacy, as well as evidentiary issues. The second edition of her book, California Evidence, was published in Aspen's Examples and Explanations series. Professor Goodman was an officer of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and served for several years as chair of its Diversity in the Profession Committee. She was also a member of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Board for many years, and now serves as President of California Women Lawyers. As a law student, she served on the board for the Annual Women of Color and the Law Conference. 

1 Hour MCLE Credit Offered

PAY NOW:

Students - $16.50*
Members - $26.50*
Non-Members - $37.50*

*Discounted pricing is available for cash or checks mailed to WLASLO, P.O. Box 3918, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-3918: Students: $15, Members: $25, Non-Members: $35

IN ORDER TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT, WLA MUST RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017.

Walk-ins are welcome on a first come/first served basis, however, it really helps us to plan and Upper Crust to set up properly if you reserve ahead of time.  

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